anand@utastro.UUCP (Anand Sivaramakrishnan) (09/12/85)
I would like to know more about the sort of thing Robert Cooper posted recently. I'm not a collector, but I enjoyed the little digression into the history of photographic gadgetry. Incidentally, I own a folding 6x6 camera that has 'Solida III' written on it. It was made in U.S.-occupied Germany (written on it). I learnt recently that it is made by Agfa. Why did Agfa not put their name on it? It takes curious pictures, the lens dies a horrible death in the corners, so the pictures look like they are pre-Boer War. I believe the lens is a bit of a lemon, a Schneider-Kreuznach Radionar. Very bad spherical aberration or something technical like that. Perhaps it was meant as a portrait lens only? It looks very nice, though. (By folding I mean that the lens & shutter assembly spring out of the metal body, with bellows.... )